My scenario was triggering a Firebase backup once a day, but being to cheap to upgrade to the paid plan, that does it. (There also isn't an easy way to cap cost

My scenario was triggering a Firebase backup once a day, but being to cheap to upgrade to the paid plan, that does it. (There also isn't an easy way to cap costs with Firebase). I actual backup is handled by a serverless function (in my case hosted by Vercel). There are other services that have somewhat generous free tiers, but be aware that those are usually quite restrictive on run time. For triggering the actual cron job I first tried Github Actions, but found it to be rather unreliable and ultimately settled for qstash by Upstash.